AeroScout® today announced that it was named the Real-Time Location System (RTLS) category leader in the prestigious 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report released in December by KLAS®. AeroScout was selected based on performance scores compiled from healthcare providers at hospitals and IDNs throughout the United States and Canada. In the study, AeroScout received an overall score of 91.1 out of 100 -- the highest rating in the RTLS category. Moreover, for the second year in a row, 100 percent of AeroScout customers that responded to the survey said they would purchase AeroScout again.

"Since 1998, KLAS has been committed to helping healthcare providers make decisions based on candid peer feedback," said Adam Gale, President of KLAS. "Best in KLAS rankings mark those vendors who best keep their promises in their market segments for offering a combination of superior products, strong service and high customer value."

The Best in KLAS report provides a summary of performance ratings gathered over 12 months for healthcare IT software and services vendors in 111 market segments. A category leader designation is awarded to products and firms that are rated the highest in select market segments. Each category also includes a listing of vendor products ranked according to their performance scores.

A separate KLAS study also released in December, RTLS 2011: Maximizing the ROI, surveyed over 150 healthcare RTLS customers. In this report, AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based solutions received the highest RTLS vendor / product ranking and led in 23 out of the 25 KLAS indicators. Additionally, AeroScout's customers reported the broadest deployment of RTLS in terms of hospital-wide and multi-facility use, and its customers had the highest satisfaction with vendor-provided analytics tools.

In answering the question, "Is there an ROI in RTLS?" the authors of the report concluded decisively, "Yes. Provider after provider indicated seeing improvement in operational efficiency with RTLS, whether using the technology for temperature monitoring, asset tracking or in more complex use cases."

"The latest KLAS studies further validate what our customers have been reporting for years -- that RTLS has a very strong impact on hospital operations and quality of patient care," said Scott McFarland, General Manager of Healthcare at AeroScout. "We are proud of our top position in both of the recent KLAS reports -- at AeroScout, customer satisfaction and customer value are our highest priorities."

To learn more about AeroScout RTLS solutions, visit AeroScout in booth #4265 at the HIMSS 2012 Conference, February 20 - 24, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting on the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS' mission is to improve delivery by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of our healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors, and vendors. Working together with executives from more than 4,500 hospitals and more than 2,500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends, and statistics that provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services, medical equipment, and infrastructure vendors. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email marketing@klasresearch.com, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.

About AeroScoutAeroScout is the global market leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. Customers improve operational efficiency using AeroScout products that leverage standard Wi-Fi networks to track and manage the location, condition and status of mobile assets and people. AeroScout's customer base consists of leading hospital, manufacturing, mining and logistics organizations, including many of the Fortune 500. The company invented the first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and today is widely recognized as leading the market in number of deployments. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, AeroScout has offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

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